Studies disagree on shaken-baby syndrome -- In the decade since her
conviction, attorneys say, many experts have studied the physics and
biomechanics of shaken-baby syndrome and have concluded that shaking
alone could not have produced the child's injuries without leaving other
evidence of abuse.

ACTION
ALERT: SHOW ME THE LAW -- THERE IS NO LAW!!!! Making the
average American liable for the income tax!! It's time to stop
asking and waiting and START TELLING the rest of America the TRUTH!!
America has the right to know it is being robbed by a ruthless and
amoral band of lawless bureaucrats while those we have elected and those
we have placed on our court benches to protect us merely look away.

Executive Order 12803 -- Here is how they are able to sell us out.
This Presidential Executive Order, signed by George the Greater, April
30, 1992, which puts all government assets up for sale or auction to the
highest bidder. Somehow, this includes every level of government even
though the President's jurisdiction is restricted to the Federal
government.

IMMEDIATE
RELEASE: Senate passes last CDA moratorium bill 27-4! -- In yet
another historic move in the Legislature, not only did the Senate vote
to suspend several rules to take-up the last vehicle to pass a private
toll moratorium, HB 1892, early but also senators amended the bill to
put the Department of Transportation on a tighter leash during the
moratorium period.

Is the Chicken You Eat Poisoned With Arsenic? -- You were probably
as surprised as I was to find out that nearly three-fourths of
commercially raised chickens will be contaminated with arsenic because
they were fed contaminated food. Read More...

Bush Official Resigns in Wake of Scandal -- Randall Tobias , head of
the Bush administration's foreign aid programs, abruptly resigned Friday
after his name surfaced in an investigation into a high-priced call-girl
ring, said two people in a position to know the circumstances of his
departure.

82 Inmates Cleared but Still Held at Guantanamo -- More than a fifth
of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been
cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their
freedom because U.S. officials are finding it increasingly difficult to
line up places to send them, according to Bush administration officials
and defense lawyers.

Tax protest backers vow to disobey -- For supporters of Ed and
Elaine Brown, a federal judge's decision to sentence the tax-protesting
couple to 63 months in prison wasn't the big news Tuesday. In part,
that's because it will have no immediate effect on the couple, who
remain holed up in their fortified Plainfield home. Instead, the
couple's supporters are reacting to an announcement by the federal
marshal that anyone who helps the Browns evade capture might be subject
to arrest.

$2000 to clean up biohazard from broken CFL bulb -- According to an
April 12 article in The Ellsworth American, Bridges had the misfortune
of breaking a CFL during installation in her daughter's bedroom: It
dropped and shattered on the carpeted floor. The potentially hazardous
CFL is being pushed by companies such as Wal-Mart, which wants to sell
100 million CFLs at five times the cost of incandescent bulbs during
2007, and, surprisingly, environmentalists...even though it contains
high levels of mercury.

Taiwan missing million of bees also -- Taiwan's bee farmers are
feeling the sting of lost business and possible crop danger after
millions of the honey-making, plant-pollinating insects vanished during
volatile weather, media and experts said on Thursday.

American Red
Cross Announces New Chief -- The American Red Cross said today that
it had chosen Mark W. Everson, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue
Service, as its new chief executive. The appointment ends a search that
has lasted more than a year, as the Red Cross struggled to overcome
criticism of its performance after Hurricane Katrina and waited for
Congress to pass legislation changing its governance structure.

No bees? Not just strange, but scary -- When you consider that
perhaps half the plants in nature depend upon pollinators like bees to
reproduce, you have to wonder what a future without bees holds - not
just for the animals that live on those plants, but for human beings.

U.S. officials exclude car bombs in touting drop in Iraq violence --
Car bombs and other explosive devices have killed thousands of Iraqis in
the past three years, but the administration doesn't include them in the
casualty counts it has been citing as evidence that the surge of
additional U.S. forces is beginning to defuse tensions between Shiite
and Sunni Muslims.

Court Asked to Limit
Lawyers at Guantánamo -- The Justice Department has asked a federal
appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on the hundreds of lawyers
who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the request has
become a central issue in a new legal battle over the administration’s
detention policies.

Ed
& Elaine Brown get five years -- A federal judge sentenced tax
protesters Ed and Elaine Brown to more than five years in prison
yesterday, giving them sentences at the top of the range recommended by
probation officers but below sentencing recommendations offered by the
prosecutor. The couple did not attend the hearing, and Ed Brown refused
to recognize the sentence or the federal court that issued it.

Over 450,000 Federal Workers Are Tax Deadbeats -- Senate Finance
Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking Republican Charles
Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to President Bush today complaining that
over 450,000 federal workers and retirees owe $3 billion in federal
taxes. The Senators also released this tax delinquency data, showing
that the largest percentages of federal employee/retiree tax deadbeats
are in these departments and agencies: Read who they are....!

British Army review Prince Harry's deployment to Iraq -- British
army chiefs are wrangling over whether to send Prince Harry to Iraq, the
Ministry of Defence said Thursday, amid one of the bloodiest months for
British forces in Iraq. The Sun newspaper said the second lieutenant
could be stopped from being sent to southern Iraq because insurgents
could target him, putting his troops in extra danger.

Residents organize to oppose Blackwater -- An ad hoc organization
entitled “Clearwater,” has drawn regional attention for its opposition
to the Blackwater training facility recently opened in Jo Daviess
County, Illinois.

Water:
Spencer Massachusetts Declares 'Mass Casualty -- Spencer
Massachusetts's fire chief has declared a mass casualty incident and a
few residents have been taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. It would seem
that too much sodium hydroxide was released into the town of Spencer's
water system causing a dozen people to be sent to the hospital Wednesday
morning because of chemical burns.

U.S.
Health Freedom on Verge of Collapse by Byron Richards, CCN -- If
S1082 becomes law and the FDA is allowed to enter relationships with
foreign countries without any Congressional mandate or oversight we can
kiss health freedom goodbye – as well as our dietary supplements. Read
this article to see what you can do to help!

U.S. examines if human food tainted -- Health officials are now
looking at whether humans may have consumed food containing a chemical
linked to a recall of pet foods and livestock feed, the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration said today.
U.S. examines if pet food contaminant in human food -- FDA officials
said they would inspect imports of six grain products used in foods
ranging from bread to baby formula for traces of melamine, a chemical
thought to have killed and sickened cats and dogs.

Ranger alleges cover-up in Tillman case -- An Army Ranger who was
with Pat Tillman when the former football star was cut down by friendly
fire in Afghanistan said Tuesday a commanding officer had ordered him to
keep quiet about what happened.

Tillman's brother blasts military -- Pat Tillman's brother accused
the military Tuesday of "intentional falsehoods" and "deliberate and
careful misrepresentations" in portraying the football star's death in
Afghanistan as the result of heroic engagement with the enemy instead of
friendly fire.

SSRI
Stories -- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), of which
Prozac was the first, launched in December 1987. Other SSRIs are Zoloft,
Paxil (Seroxat), Celexa, Sarafem (Prozac in a pink pill), Lexapro, and
Luvox. These drugs are widely employed as first line treatment for
depression. Other antidepressants included in this list are Remeron,
Anafranil and the SNRIs Effexor, Serzone and Cymbalta as well as the
dopamine reuptake inhibitor antidepressant Wellbutrin (also marketed as
Zyban). Please wait a couple of minutes for the website to load.

Ron Paul: Presidential Candidate: U.S. In Danger of Dictatorship --
Presidential candidate Ron Paul has warned that the US is now at a
crisis point because the people have been so neglectful of protecting
their liberties and big government has been so effective in eroding
them. He warned that the elite are prepared to concoct events to scare
the American people and asserted that the 2008 Presidential election is
a contest between the people who care about their freedoms and those who
are willing to succumb to the temptations of dictatorship.

Mike New Update April
23, 2007 -- Former Army Specialist Michael New's petition to the US
Supreme Court, asking them to review his case, and the lack of due
process and the sudden change in the legal "standard of review" applied
to it, has been denied. Thus ends a legal battle that began in August of
1995.

Blair defends global terror fight -- Tony Blair has warned that
terrorism continues to be a "global" threat and needs to be fought
whether it is in "Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else".

Australia Microchipping Pet News -- As from 1 May 2007 the Domestic
(Feral and Nuisance) Animals Act 1994 requires all dogs and cats newly
registered with Council to be microchipped before Council can accept the
registration of the pet. This also applies to any dog or cat being moved
into the municipality.

It's Not Just Pet Food -- Lost amid the anxiety surrounding the
tainted U.S. pet food supply is this sobering reality: It's not just pet
owners who should be worried. The uncontrolled distribution of
low-quality imported food ingredients, mainly from China, poses a grave
threat to public health worldwide.

Former Russian Leader Boris Yeltsin Dies -- Former President Boris
Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and
pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, has died, a
Kremlin official said Monday. He was 76.

FDA
asks if pet food tainted on purpose -- Imported ingredients used in
recalled pet food may have been intentionally spiked with an industrial
chemical to boost their apparent protein content, federal officials said
Thursday.
Criminal Probe Opened in Pet Food Scare -- The FDA has opened a
criminal investigation in the widening pet food contamination scandal,
officials said yesterday, as it was confirmed that tainted pork might
have made its way onto human dinner plates in California.

U.S. Exposed Personal Data -- For more than a decade, the Census
Bureau posted on a public Web site the Social Security numbers of 63,000
people who received financial aid, officials said yesterday. The
apparent violation of federal privacy law prompted concerns about
identity theft.

Fed wiring Social Security payments to illegals in Mexico? --
Officials with the Federal Reserve and Social Security Administration
insist payments are not going to illegal aliens but admit they cannot be
certain. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has launched a
new task force to address the "growing" problem of benefit fraud,
including in the Social Security Administration.

Soldier says he was deployed with head injury -- “He has a profile
that says he can’t always understand orders because of his brain injury
— but they’re giving him an Article 15 for disobeying orders,” Pogany
said. “This kind of treatment is very pervasive across the board.”

Investigators probe Blue Angels crash -- April 22: A 32-year-old
pilot was killed during the crash of a Navy Blue Angels jet at an air
show in Beaufort, S.C. NBC’s Mark Potter reports on how the pilot was
living a dream. Lt. Cmdr. Kevin J. Davis of Pittsfield, Mass. was in his
second year with the Blue Angels, the team known for its high-speed,
aerobatic demonstrations, Lt. Cmdr. Garrett Kasper said.

VA rejects proposed fixes for case backlog -- No, no, no and no was
the response Tuesday from the Department of Veterans Affairs to four
bills pending before Congress to reduce the 600,000-case backlog of
veterans’ benefits claims. That means “no” to HR 67, sponsored by Rep.
Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., that would allocate $25 million a year — about $1
for each living veteran — to improve veterans’ outreach programs, and
would give grants to states to pay for education and training programs
for state and local veterans’ agencies.

Armed Miss America 1944 stops intruder -- Miss America 1944 has a
talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She
fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder.

Virginia Tech gunman's family feels 'hopeless, helpless and lost' --
The family of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-hui Cho spoke out for the first
time Friday, saying in a prepared statement that they felt "hopeless,
helpless and lost" and were left heartbroken by the "terrible, senseless
tragedy" the deeply troubled young man inflicted on fellow students and
teachers.

DU: Soldier Health Scare Back in News -- While the military
continues to deny the connection of depleted uranium to sicknesses
plaguing returning servicemen and women, a newly mandated study stemming
from legislation signed by President Bush in October is just getting
under way.

George
Washington's Blog -- Numerous articles relating to 9/11 such as
"Government Heard 9/11 Plans from Hijackers' Own Mouths'

Seung-Hui
Cho Was a Mind Controlled Assassin -- Seung-Hui Cho was a
mind-controlled assassin, whether you believe he was under the influence
of outside parties or not, the fact is that the cultural brainwashing of
violent video games and psychotropic drugs directly contributed, as it
does in all these cases, to the carnage at Virginia Tech on Monday
morning. See bizarre recently taken photograph
of Cho wearing a U.S. Marines uniform.

Supreme Court to review
Michael New's case 20 April 2007 -- On October 10, 1995, the 1/15
Battalion of the 3rd infantry Division of the U.S. Army came to
attention at 0900 in Schweinfurt, Germany. All but one of the 550
soldiers were wearing a sky-blue baseball-style cap with a United
Nations insignia on the front. One was wearing the olive-drab flat cap
that is authorized to be worn with the Battle Dress Uniform. With this
simple act of disobeying a direct order, Spc. 4 Michael New set the
stage for a legal battle that has profound implications for the future
of American soldiers into service of the United Nations without the
constitutional permission of Congress.

FDA Asks if Pet Food Tainted on Purpose -- Imported ingredients used
in recalled pet food may have been intentionally spiked with an
industrial chemical to boost their apparent protein content, federal
officials said Thursday.

FEMA to Take Lead Role in Coordinating Disaster Aid -- The Federal
Emergency Management Agency will replace the American Red Cross as the
agency in charge of coordinating the provision of shelter, food and
first aid to victims in disasters under an agreement disclosed by a
Senate panel yesterday.

Rep. Doolittle Gives Up Committee Seat -- Less than a week after the
FBI raided the Northern Virginia home of his wife, Rep. John T.
Doolittle (R-Calif.) gave up his coveted seat on the House
Appropriations Committee today amid concerns that he had used that post
to advance the interest of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and other
allies.

Justices Uphold Abortion Procedure Ban -- The Supreme Court's new
conservative majority gave anti-abortion forces a landmark victory
Wednesday in a 5-4 decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure
nationwide and sets the stage for further restrictions.

Cho's sister works for McNeil Technologies -- THE sister of the
gunman responsible for the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US
history works as a contractor for a State Department office that
oversees billions of dollars in American aid for Iraq.

Texas Lawyers Fought the IRS and Won -- The $1.34 million check was
the result of a settlement between the Browns and the government in Alan
Brown, et al. v. United States, a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit
the couple filed three years ago in the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Texas.

Controversial
Immigration Billboard Goes Up in Tulsa, OK -- Two former Oklahoma
Highway Patrol troopers have paid for a billboard in East Tulsa that is
getting a lot of attention, and is sure to cause some controversy. News
On 6 anchor Lori Fullbright reports the men are calling themselves
outraged patriots, and say they've had enough of illegal immigrants.

Lawyer
outlines a broader conspiracy in search for FBI documents on Oklahoma
City bombing -- A Utah attorney alleges informants gathering
information on Timothy McVeigh or his associates warned the FBI about
the plot to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building but the agency took
no action to stop the 1995 attack. The allegations are made in a brief
filed Monday in a lawsuit by Trentadue, who believes his brother s death
in a federal prison was linked to the bombing.

Virginia Tech shooter an English major, 23 -- The gunman who killed
30 people at Virginia Tech's Norris Hall before turning the gun on
himself was student Cho Seung-Hui, university police Chief Wendell
Flinchum said Tuesday.

At least 31 dead in Va. Tech shooting rampage -- A gunman opened
fire in a dormitory and a classroom at a college in Virginia on Monday,
killing at least 30 people in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S.
history. The gunman also was killed, and at least 22 other people were
injured.

FDA Urgently Warns Consumers about Health Risks of Potentially
Contaminated Olives -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
is alerting consumers to possible serious health risks from eating
olives that may be contaminated with a deadly bacterium, Clostridium
botulinum. C. botulinum can cause botulism, a potentially fatal illness.
The olives are made by Charlie Brown di Rutigliano & Figli S.r.l, of
Bari, Italy and are being recalled by the manufacturer.

Walter Reed no surprise to Gulf War vets -- The ailing vets are too
sick and too realistic to expect any justice. All they want now is for
Congress to budget some money for honest research into their problems so
that maybe some treatments can be found to make their lives a little
easier.

Imported food rarely inspected -- Frozen catfish from China, beans from
Belgium, jalapenos from Peru, blackberries from Guatemala, baked goods from
Canada, India and the Philippines — the list of tainted food detained at the
border by the Food and Drug Administration stretches on. "FDA doesn't have
enough resources or control over this situation presently," said Mike Doyle
director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety, which works
with industry to improve safety.

N.D. bans forced RFID chipping -- North Dakota has become the second
state in the U.S. to ban the forced implanting of radio frequency
identification (RFID) chips in people. The two-sentence bill, passed by the
state legislature, was signed into law by Gov. John Hoeven last Wednesday.
Essentially, it forbids anyone from compelling someone else to have an RFID
chip injected into their skin. The state follows in the steps of Wisconsin,
which passed similar legislation last year.

‘Nothing to
Hide,’ Attorney General Insists -- Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales
offered a measured apology for his mistakes in the dismissal of eight United
States attorneys, but said in testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on
Tuesday that he had “nothing to hide” and that none of the prosecutors were
removed to influence the outcome of a case.

Chavez calls 9/11 gift for Bush -- Venezuelan President has labeled 9/11
attacks on US as "a gift for Bush," saying it enabled the US government to
wage wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Texas is
amassing an unprecedented amount of information on its citizens -- Piece
by piece, Gov. Rick Perry's homeland security office is gathering massive
amounts of information about Texas residents and merging it to create the
most exhaustive centralized database in state history. Warehoused far from
Texas on servers housed at a private company in Louisville, Kentucky, the
Texas Data Exchange -- TDEx to those in the loop -- is designed to be an
all-encompassing intelligence database. It is supposed to help catch
criminals, ferret out terrorist cells, and allow disparate law enforcement
agencies to share information.

Bush: Unaware of DOD plans to extend tour -- White House officials on
Thursday admitted that President Bush was unaware of defense plans to
immediately extend Army combat tours when he criticized Democrats’ budget
plans as potentially forcing troops to spend more time in Iraq.

Texas A&M Fails to Report Stricken Student in Bioweapons Lab for 14 Months
-- Texas A&M University failed to report in a timely manner to Federal
authorities that a biology student was stricken with the dangerous brucella
pathogen in its College Station laboratory for bioweapons agent research on
February 9th of 2006. The university made its disclosure this April 10th, 14
months later, and only after insistent prodding by the Sunshine Project, an
Austin, Tex.-based arms control watchdog organization.

Dollar slide accelerates -- The dollar's slide against most of the
world's currencies gained pace today as dealers worried over the outlook for
the US economy.

Tons of Food Spoiled As FEMA Ran Out Of Storage Space -- As many as 6
million prepared meals stockpiled near potential victims of the 2006
hurricane season spoiled in the Gulf Coast heat last summer when the Federal
Emergency Management Agency ran short of warehouse and refrigeration space,
according to agency officials.

N.J. governor critical after SUV crash -- The crash occurred around 6
p.m. while Corzine was en route from Atlantic City to the governor's mansion
in Princeton to moderate a meeting between the Rutgers women's basketball
team and radio personality Don Imus.

IAF jets forced to buzz US airliner -- Four fighter jets - two F-15s and
a pair of F-16s - buzzed a Continental Airlines flight that had originated
in Newark and was carrying some 250 passengers once it came within eight
kilometers of Israel, after the pilot failed to contact Ben-Gurion Airport
upon his approach in line with international regulations.

FDA's Response to Tainted Pet Food Assailed -- Senators Say Better
Reporting, Inspections Needed. "This is inexcusable," Sen. Richard J. Durbin
(D-Ill.) said after a two-hour hearing in which an FDA official said he
couldn't be sure that all the adulterated pet food has been recalled and is
off store shelves. "The FDA's response to this situation has been wholly
inadequate."

Troops React To Forced Extensions With ‘Anger,’ ‘Frustration,’ ‘Collective
Groan’ -- newspapers are returning harrowing accounts from the ground,
where U.S. soldiers reacted to the news with “muffled outbursts of anger and
frustration laced with dark humor.” The Washington Post reports. They found
out by reading exasperated e-mails from their spouses, hearing somber
announcements from their platoon commanders, seeing snippets of the
secretary of defense at a televised news conference: The American soldiers
who thought they were staying in Iraq one year would now stay 15 months. All
of them.

Health freedom action
alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as “drugs”
-- When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA’s end game. A new FDA
“guidance” document, published on the FDA’s website, reveals plans to
reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable
juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and massage rocks will be
classified as “medical devices” and require FDA approval. The document is
called Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary
and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug
Administration.

List
of people NOT to do business with -- The US Treasury dept. has published
a list of names that all Americans are responsible to know. If you do any
business with the people on this list, you are subject to a potential $10mil
in fines and 30 year prison sentence. The nature of the business is not
relevant, and can include selling them a copy of the newspaper, a cup of
coffee, or a Big Mac. The list is available in pdf, CSV, and XML for easy
integration into your database. The pdf is about 250 pages. Make sure you're
not doing business with anyone with any of these or any similar names. Just
follow the hyperlinks on the website listed.

Council on Foreign Relations Membership List -- Founded in 1921, the
Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, national membership
organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing
and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as
policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United
States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign
policy choices facing the United States and other governments. The Council,
which is headquartered in New York with an office in Washington, DC.

Three top generals refuse Bush's war "czar" appointment -- The White
House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State
Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able
and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation.

US Submarine Forced to Leave Persian Gulf -- The damaged US nuclear
submarine 'Newport News' which polluted the Persian Gulf waters with
radioactive and chemical materials after it collided with a Japanese super
tanker in Hormoz Strait was forced to leave the Persian Gulf following
strong protests by Iranian officials.

Army Extends Iraq Tours to 15 Months -- Stretched thin by four years of
war, the Army is adding three months to the standard yearlong tour for all
active-duty soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, an extraordinary step aimed at
maintaining the troop buildup in Baghdad.

Philippines
Forbids Import And Use Of Aspartame -- A law promulgated by the
Philippine Congress has forbidden the importing and use, in the country, of
aspartame, a sweetener that is between 180 to 200 times more potent than
sugar, as well as banning distribution off our makers of saccharine, the
most important brand names in the country known as: Equal, NutraSweet,
Equal-Measure y Spoonful.

State considers education policy for immigrants -- Advocates estimate
about 65,000 illegal immigrants finish high school in the United States each
year, but can't go on to college because they can't get in-state tuition. A
measure that would help them has also failed in Congress for several years,
but advocates hope the new Democratic majority may change that.

Minnesota: Uranium tests for veterans proposed -- A Senate panel on
Tuesday approved a proposal to spend $1 million to test more than 800
veterans for exposure to depleted uranium, which the U.S. military has used
to harden shells and other munitions for piercing armor. The legislation
puts Minnesota at the forefront of a gradual movement by states -- whose
National Guard members and reservists have contributed heavily to the wars
-- to improve testing for uranium and determine its long-term consequences.

Thwarted Warrior -- Robert Koehler interviews Doug Rokke the day before
easter. "There isn't a day that goes by," Rokke says, "when I don't get a
phone call, letter, e-mail or knock on the door from (a vet) needing help --
medical care." Think about those numbers again. Several hundred thousand
sick from the current wars, another several hundred thousand Gulf War 1 vets
ailing and dying. All they want is good medical care!

Gun owners up in arms over Pa. bill -- House Bill 760 has outraged gun
owners across the state because it would require annual registration of
every weapon they possess other than antiques -- guns manufactured before
1898 -- certain collector's items, and law-enforcement duty weapons.

Insect-Based Flu Vaccine Shows Promise -- Genetically engineered flu
vaccine made from yellow striped caterpillars instead of hen eggs has been
shown for the first time to keep people from getting the flu, scientists
say.

McConnell seeks to boost U.S. spy powers -- President Bush's spy chief
is pushing to expand the government's surveillance authority at the same
time the administration is under attack for stretching its domestic
eavesdropping powers.

FDA weighs risk of Vioxx successor drug called Arcoxia -- The FDA said
its focus in evaluating Merck's application for Arcoxia, and all other drugs
from that class, will be specifically on its risks to the cardiovascular
system. Any nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, merit approval
only if they fill an unmet need for a particular group of patients who have
no relatively safer options available, the FDA said in a March 21 memorandum
released Tuesday.

Menu Foods CFO sold stock before pet food recall -- The chief financial
officer of Menu Foods Income Fund says it was a "horrible coincidence" that
he sold nearly half his units in the pet food company less than three weeks
before a massive product recall.

17 month old Baby's life hangs on Texas law -- Texas is one of the few
states with a timetable allowing hospitals to decide (not parents or
relatives) when to end life-sustaining treatment, according to studies cited
by activist groups. Other states allow hospitals to cut off treatment but do
not specify a time frame.

GM corn
proven toxic to liver and kidneys -- Researchers fed rats either
unmodified corn or diets containing 11 or 30 percent MON863 for 90 days. The
rats who ate modified corn were found to exhibit signs of liver and kidney
toxicity, as well as signs of hormonal changes.

Sailors banned from selling stories -- The Ministry of Defence on Monday
banned any more of the 15 sailors and marines held in Iran from selling
their stories to the media, reversing a previous decision after widespread
criticism.

Bedbugs bounce back: Outbreaks in all 50 states -- Nearly eradicated in
the United States 50 years ago, resistant strains of "super" bedbugs are
infesting mattresses at an alarming rate. In what's being touted as the
biggest mystery in entomology, all 50 states are reporting outbreaks of the
blood-sucking nocturnal critters. Left untreated, a few bedbugs can create a
colony of thousands within weeks.

Government Report: Bio-Weapons Could Be Used To Combat Overpopulation --
A British government Ministry of Defence report outlines a nightmare future
society in which the population are forced to accept brain chips,
immigration and urbanization ravages communities, class warfare ensues, and
biological and neutron weapons are used to combat overpopulation.

Kindergarten Girl Handcuffed, Arrested At Fla. School -- Police arrested
a 6-year-old Florida girl and even handcuffed her when she acted out in
class. Police officers said Desre'e Watson, a kindergarten student at Avon
Elementary School in Highlands County, had a violent run-in with a teacher
on Thursday. The kindergartner was booked in the Highland County jail and
was charged with a felony and two misdemeanors.

VIDEO:
The Third Stage -- A collection of short mainstream media and
independent film clips on the evolution of 9/11 skepticism.

More
soldiers arrive in Baghdad for ‘surge’ -- Made up of more than 3,000
soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga., the brigade is beginning its fourth tour in
Iraq. According to military officials, the bulk of the brigade will be at
Forward Operating Base Hammer, a former Iraqi army base east of Baghdad.

Rally marks 4th anniversary of Baghdad's fall -- Tens of thousands
draped themselves in Iraqi flags and marched through the streets of two
Shiite holy cities Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall,
with some demonstrators calling for U.S.-led forces to leave Iraq.

Don Imus: 'I'm a good person' -- Calling himself "a good person" who
made a bad mistake, radio host Don Imus said Monday he would check his acid
tongue after being lambasted for making racially charged comments about the
Rutgers University women's basketball team.

Mystery Illness Hits Hundreds of School Kids in Mexico -- "We really
don't know the cause, but the diagnosis by health authorities is of a
psychological ailment," Cheong said. Some 600 of the 4,000 girls at the
Villa de las Ninas school had been affected, she said, and 300 children had
left the school , which offers a free secondary education to children from
poor families.

Australia: ‘Millions to rebel’ over ID cards -- The government is
predicting that some 15m people will revolt against Tony Blair’s
controversial ID card scheme by refusing to produce the new cards or provide
personal data on demand.

State legislatures revising organ-donation law to ease shortages --
State legislatures are rewriting laws governing organ donations in one of
the most ambitious initiatives in at least 20 years to alleviate the chronic
shortage of kidneys, livers, and other body parts, an effort that some
doctors and ethicists fear tilts too far toward allowing organs to be taken.

Pets Are More Than "Property" -- I’d hate to be a pet owner in the
United States these days. In addition to the extensive pet food recall
taking place across North America, legal experts are now saying that
American pet owners whose pets have died as a result of eating the
contaminated food will have a difficult time obtaining substantial
compensation for their loss. It all boils down to "Value of the property".
How do you place a price tag on a family member or a best friend?

13,000 Guard troops await deployment -- 13,000 National Guard troops in
Oklahoma, Indiana, Arkansas and an as-yet unspecified state expected to be
notified soon that they could be sent to Iraq around the first of next year,
military officials say.

CHENEY AT Brigham Young University -- The White House targeted officials
at Brigham Young University (BYU) in January to offer Dick Cheney’s speaking
services at their Commencement exercises on April 26, 2007. I seriously
question Cheney’s prerogative and motives in his offer to BYU, owned by the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Is this an attempt to clean-up
his image, mix politics with religion, gain a silent endorsement for
war-mongering actions, or wage a struggle for his own political survival or
to discretely discredit Professor Steven Jones who retired early from BYU.

Brasscheck TV --
Imagine...TV about what's really going on! To learn more about and watch a
specific program, just click on the links within the Brasscheck TV website.

Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted -- Captured Iraqi documents
and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all
confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda
before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense
Department report released yesterday.

China Investigating Wheat Gluten Claims -- China is investigating U.S.
claims that a Chinese company exported contaminated wheat gluten implicated
in pet deaths in the United States, a Chinese official said Friday, the
first time the government has weighed in on the issue.

Moisture Led to Peanut Butter Salmonella Outbreak -- Moisture from a
leaky roof and faulty sprinkler helped salmonella bacteria grow and
contaminate peanut butter at its Georgia plant last year, sickening more
than 400 people nationwide, ConAgra Foods said Thursday.

Drug-Dispensing Tooth Could Be Controlled By Cell Phone -- Researchers
in Europe and Israel are working on a tooth that can dispense medicine into
a person's mouth. The tiny device would be able to release a specific amount
of medicine at certain intervals, ensuring that the patient gets the proper
dosage at the right time.

Pentagon to Alert National Guard Troops -- Several National Guard
brigades are expected to be notified soon that they could be sent to Iraq
around the first of next year, according to a senior Defense Department
official.

America's Broken-Down Army -- it is no small irony that today's U.S.
Army finds itself under the greatest strain in a generation. The Pentagon
made that clear April 2 when it announced that two Army units will soon
return to Iraq without even a year at home, compared with the two years
units have traditionally enjoyed. One is headed back after 47 days short of
a year, the other 81. "This is the first time we've had a voluntary Army on
an extended deployment," says Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who
advises his old service.

VA patient has wrong testicle removed -- An Air Force veteran has filed
a federal claim after an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in
which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.

W.Va. Turkeys Show Bird Flu Exposure -- A local turkey farmer had to
destroy about 25,000 birds Sunday after routine tests showed that some of
the birds had been exposed to avian influenza, according to a statement from
the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Statins for children? -- Now They Want to Treat Kids With Statins. The
American Heart Association (AHA) now recommends the use of statin drugs for
children with high-risk lipid abnormalities when diet and exercise fail to
lower their cholesterol.

Pelosi plays Jr. Secretary
of State -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her delegation said they had
frank words with President Bashar al-Assad and other senior Syrian officials
on Wednesday, pressing the president over Syria’s support for militant
groups and insisting that his government block militants seeking to cross
into Iraq and join insurgents there.

Iranians release British sailors -- Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad says 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf are free to
leave. They are expected to fly home to the UK on Thursday.Related Article:
British sailors fly home after Iran ordeal -- After being showered with
traditional Iranian gifts, the group took off from Tehran on a British
Airways flight 14 days after they were seized at gunpoint in the northern
Gulf accused of violating Iranian territorial waters.

What's happening to the bees? -- Scientists call it "colony collapse
disorder" (CCD). First reported in Florida last fall, the problem has since
spread to 24 states. Commercial beekeepers are reporting losses of between
50 and 90 percent, an unprecedented amount even for an industry accustomed
to die-offs. Research is only beginning and hard data is still lacking, but
beekeepers suspect everything from a new virus or parasite to pesticides and
genetically modified crops.

U.S. creating Iranian terrorism? -- A Pakistani tribal militant group
responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been
secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and
Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.

Is This the End of Organic Coffee? -- Enjoy your organic coffee now,
while it's hot -- because it may not be around for long. The decision
tightens organic certification requirements to such a degree that it could
sharply curtail the ability of small grower co-ops to produce organic coffee
-- not to mention organic bananas, cocoa, sugar and even spices.

U.S. Seeks to Ease Irradiated Food Label -- The government proposed
Tuesday relaxing its rules on labeling of irradiated foods and suggested it
may allow some products zapped with radiation to be called "pasteurized."

What sparked hostage event? -- A failed American attempt to abduct two
senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was
the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing
15 British sailors and Marines.

Hmm...warships to the Gulf? What does this mean? -- USS Nimitz, other
warships leave San Diego for the Persian Gulf - The USS Nimitz and several
other American warships left San Diego today for the Persian Gulf to join
another locally based aircraft carrier strike group already in the region.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will join the San Diego-based John C.
Stennis Strike Group and relieve the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, according to
Naval Air Forces Public Affairs.

It's okay to
steal if you are the government -- In 2005, New Jersey put either $551
million, $56 million or nothing into its pension fund for teachers. All
three figures appeared in various state documents — though the state now
says that the actual amount was zero.

Africa: Bush Approves U.S. Army for Africa -- UNITED States
President George Bush has approved the formation of a U.S. army to
permanently operate in Africa, a move viewed by many as part of a wide plan
to increase American hegemony on Africa. The army called the U.S. African
Command, was approved by Mr Bush on February 2, 2007 and US$50 million was
last week injected in the project that should see the army being fully
operational by 2008.

Justices Say E.P.A. Has
Power to Act on Harmful Gases -- In one of its most important
environmental decisions in years, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the
Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate heat-trapping
gases in automobile emissions.

Ukrainian Leader
Disbands Parliament -- A fragile power-sharing deal in Ukraine
collapsed Monday when President Viktor A. Yushchenko ordered the dissolution
of Parliament, the base of support for his rival, Prime Minister Viktor F.
Yanukovich, whom the president accused of usurping power. Mr. Yushchenko
ordered new elections for May 27, less than eight weeks away.

What’s Really in Pet Food -- This report explores the differences
between what consumers think they are buying and what they are actually
getting.Pet Foods NOT
on recall list -- The following companies listed in this article
have made statements that their food is not affected by the Menu Foods
recall. Keep in mind that we are not “recommending” any of these foods.
Rather, we’re compiling a list of foods that are reported safe by the
manufacturers. (Thanks to Nina for these 2 great articles)

More computers
missing -- now ATOMIC SECRETS!! -- The office in charge of
protecting American technical secrets about nuclear weapons from foreign
spies is missing 20 desktop computers, at least 14 of which have been used
for classified information, the Energy Department inspector general reported
on Friday.

Should hospitals call
911? -- The answer may seem self-evident. But patients at some
hospitals may find the staff resorting to what someone might do at home in a
crisis: call 911 for an ambulance.

Qaeda Is Seen as
Restoring Leadership -- As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan’s tribal
areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to
cement control over the network’s operations, according to American
intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

Detainee says he confessed to stop torture -- A detainee accused of
being Al Qaeda's Persian Gulf operations chief said in court that his U.S.
captors tortured him for years and forced him to falsely confess to the
bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole and to many other terrorist plots,
according to a Pentagon transcript released Friday.

Jerusalem Post - Imminent Threat? -- THE IRANIAN THREAT - The
reports come as the Iranian chief of staff, Hassan Fayrouz Abadi, was quoted
on Saturday by Iran's Fars news agency warning leaders of Arab countries
that Israel plans to open a "suicidal attack" on its neighbors this summer,
to "prevent the withdrawal of the US troops from Iraq and the area."

Australian in Guantanamo to serve 9 months -- Australian al
Qaeda foot soldier David Hicks, who became the first war crimes convict
among the hundreds of foreign captives held for years at the Guantanamo
prison camp, had pleaded guilty to providing material support to
terrorism in an agreement with U.S. military prosecutors. He was
sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday but will only serve nine
months, a U.S. military tribunal said.

'V'
Visits The White House -- "Vs" stage protest at White House.
About 60 protesters dressed up as the Guy Fawkes look-a-like "V," from
the movie by the same name, staged a protest at the White House
yesterday, March 30, 2007. The protest was sponsored by
http://www.givemeliberty.org
Related Articles: Calling
all “V”s to Washington March 30th at 3 PM -- It’s Time To Demand
Redress! We need ALL of you to come to Washington and show the
government that We the People will not be ignored, our Petitions for
Redress must be answered, and meaningful Redress MUST be secured. For
more information, please click above link.

Death Squad in Delaware: The Case of the Murdered Marine --
Hale, a retired Marine Sergeant who served two tours in Iraq and was
decorated before his combat-related medical discharge in January 2006,
was murdered by a heavily armed 8–12-member undercover police team in
Wilmington, Delaware last November 6. He had come to Wilmington from his
home in Manassas, Virginia to participate in a Toys for Tots event.

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